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Copy & Paste are two of the most important operations when writing a text. It is easy to know why: you save a lot of time.
Vim handles copy & paste powerfully and gracefully. In Vim you can yank (copy), cut and paste text objects. There are two basic ways for selecting text: either using the normal vim commands or going into visual mode.
Let us see all of this with some examples:
This is a sample text
(Bold letters indicate the cursor position as in the previous issues.)
Now type: yw followed by ESC o
As you can expect, you have just yanked a word ...